Analytics
Business analytics is comprised of solutions used to build analysis models to create scenarios and predict future states. However, the real purpose of analytics is to facilitate decision-making. Various types of analytics answer specific questions:
- Descriptive analytics: What happened?
- Diagnostic analytics: Why did it happen?
- Predictive analytics: What will happen?
- Prescriptive analytics: How can we make it happen?
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